The Winter I Met You | HYUNCHAN

Hwang Hyunjin had always been the kind of omega who made friends easily. New place, new faces - it had never mattered before. But this town was different. Smaller. Older. Already full of hierarchies he hadn't been introduced to and silences that carried a weight he didn't know how to read yet. A new house that carried another family's scent. A school where every hallway felt like walking into a dynamic that had been decided long before he arrived. He smiled anyway, because that was what he did. He tried, because that was all he knew.
Then there was Bang Chan. Showing up at his door one morning with a toolbox and an electrician and exactly four words of introduction. An alpha who carried none of the performance that usually came with it - no posturing, no dominance on display, just a boy who had clearly learned a long time ago how to take up only the space he needed. Hyunjin didn't think much of it then.
He would later. Many times over. In the way you keep returning to something small and ordinary after you realize it was actually the beginning of everything.
The Winter I Met You is a story about an omega who never needed saving and an alpha who never wanted to play hero - and how they found each other anyway, slowly and quietly, the way the best things do. In the space between newspaper routes and borrowed bicycles and mix CDs left without explanation. In a winter that started like every other and ended up being the one that changed everything.